This joy is not to be confused with mere enjoyment.
The first challenge for this view is to explain why the mere enjoyment of benefits, without some prospective agreement to respond in kind, obligates individuals to help others.
Though some consider wine as an investment to be sold later at a higher price, mere enjoyment is enough for many collectors.
Other examples would be economic institutions such as businesses and markets, religious institutions, social clubs and private associations created to advance interests or for mere enjoyment, educational and university institutions, social systems and classifications such as race and gender, and endemic social problems like poverty.
For the modern American reader, "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" has importance beyond mere aesthetic enjoyment.
"It's fascinating watching the whole final round of a major unfold," begins Guy Hornsby, "so much are we predisposed to short-form sporting enjoyment these days: T20, a mere 90 minutes of football, highlights packages galore.
The essay The Relevance of the Beautiful suggests that "the mere onlooker who indulges in aesthetic or cultural enjoyment from a safe distance, whether in the theatre, the concert hall, or the seclusion of solitary reading, simply does not exist" (RB 130).
Perfection of production is in terms of the enjoyment of the consumer: it is not a mere matter of technique or execution.
Prior to 1848, Marx used the Hegelian idea of estrangement (which Hegel had used in a metaphysical sense) to indicate the alienation of the worker from the enjoyment of the products of his labour, the crass treatment of human labour as a mere commodity and human beings as mere things, and the general dehumanization of individuals in a selfish, profit-seeking capitalist society.
Whilst we Rave so fair an opportunity offered to participate so largely in all this wealth and enjoyment, if not to govern and direct the whole, can it be possible that doubt, or mere points of speculation, will weigh with the House and cause us to lose forever the brightest prospect ever presented to the eyes of a nation?".
When we stop thinking, speaking, and acting as if we're mere victims of holiday madness (or anything else in our lives for that matter), we can dramatically enhance our enjoyment and lower our stress.
